_{[ Vanyel is quiet, considering things. It takes him a bit to work up his courage, because though Heralds knew back home, here he had kept that secret to himself, a dark thing encased in ice... ]}

Good people sometimes know bad things, do bad things without meaning to, or realizing it.

I... I helped...I helped my bonded, my lover, murder people who had wronged him. I didn't know it was what he planned, but I helped him. By the time I realize, it was to late. Everything was to late...